AuthorTopic: Whoa .... I got an eee-PC :D (Read 14015 times)

Sunday 10 Feb, It was a fine day.The Asus was launching eee-PC in my town,and there were only 500 items available !!!

I arrived at 9 O'clock,the mall should normally opened at 10 o'clock,and the selling should started at 12 o'clock.

Damn, the queue was already sooooooo long !!!Fortunatelly, I still got one, with blue color.Very cute

After some examination, this baby has Linux Xandros installed.The easy start menu is very easy to follow.However, after some examination,it has the hidden IceWM !!!After some tweaking, IceWM is active.Wow, I fell at home immediatelly.

The nostalgy of VL 5.x was in the air ....I guess, next time this baby will have Vector Linux in it

Everybody wants to borrow it and try their beloved Linux.So, since 2 weeks ago, it has being installed with:- The original Xandros- UBuntu 7.10- IGOS Nusantara (a local Indonesian distro, based on Redhat)- Merah Putih (a local Indonesian distro, based on DSL)- Zenwalk- and now .... Dewantara (Indonesian distro, based on Vector Linux).

So far, it runs all of them nicely.The devices are recognized without hard problem, except the wireless.

I am impressed with this little linux pc. It booted right up and went to work. I did implement the full desktop option (kde) and download udates (went quickly). I am checking out some of my favorite websites to get familiar with the interface and keyboard (which is small). It looks like a good buy for me. I am going to attempt to put vl 5.9 on this pc when I dig up a cdrom player. That should be fun.

OOOOh...do tell if it works...I really want to try one of these...I was also wanting to try the 100 dollar laptop with the wind up power supply but it does not seem to have materialized...Eee pc look better but no windy thingy.

I have an external drive somewhere or another. Just have to dig it up. Hmm..

I am getting used to this tiny keyboard faster than I thought I would.

I am really impressed with this version of xandros but will miss my VL if I don't get it on board. Slack 12 installs on this thin pretty well with minor config changes and the use of NDIS Wrapper for wireless. I anticipate a similar experience with VL 5.9.

Popped into PC World and had a play on a machine there.... looks remarkably good and even has Tux Racer! Amazed that it can cope with it but very pleased. Will have to save the pennies and get one at some point.

Full install of VL 5.9 works pretty much out of the box with the exception of ethernet and wireless cards. Xorg can be configured for 800x480 resolution. Some small effort is required to get sound operational.

If you follow the second Slackware link (above) you'll see that wireless can work with ndiswrapper. Not ideal but I wouldn't want a distro without wireless.

There has been a lot of work done to make slackware 12 fully compatible with the eeepc. Some of that work will benefit VL users. Unfortunately that does not include wireless networking (ndiswrapper or madwifi both of which will work in a Slackware 12 install). NDISWrapper does not work at all (it installs the driver but insists there is no interface), following the instructions for compiling and implementing madwifi leads to frustration. Wifi Radar shows an active connection, however that connection is actually non existant.

It may be necessary to install Slackware. As wonderful as VL is, it is useless on this little laptop without network connectivity. Has anyone else tried to get wireless going with VL on the eeepc?